A Good Book! I was looking through my old books recently and came across Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions, a book… Read more Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions
Idempotency
A colleague referenced the Microsoft Restful API Guidelines, which require put and delete to be idempotent. Say what? I’m more… Read more Idempotency
MSG_WAITALL and all that
Anyone who has done much socket programming knows that UDP preserves message boundaries, but TCP does not. While TCP guarantees… Read more MSG_WAITALL and all that
unbound and root.key
The topic of this post is much more narrow than any I’ve done before, but I think it’s a good idea… Read more unbound and root.key
PSA: RPMs and Required Libs
Might as well start with the obvious: I’m a RPM tyro. I’ve only written one RPM spec file from scratch,… Read more PSA: RPMs and Required Libs
Degenerate Relations
Both math and logic have the notion of “relation”, an open sentence that takes two variables. For example, “x is… Read more Degenerate Relations
Bug Dependence and Natural Selection
We programmers put a lot of thought into our code, but it is still shaped by blind, groping luck. It… Read more Bug Dependence and Natural Selection
RESTful is not RPC
Many Web Services claim to have a RESTful interface. In my experience, most of these claims are false. Here’s a… Read more RESTful is not RPC
Header files: minimal but complete
In a previous post I’ve asked that your C++ header kindly refrain from polluting my name space. “User-facing” headers —… Read more Header files: minimal but complete
Pointer Arithmetic, Containers & Iterators
(see GitHub project PointerArithmeticAndIters for working code related to this topic.) What? The main rationale for this post is my… Read more Pointer Arithmetic, Containers & Iterators
